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Sthira and sukha: the art and science of stalking balance
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? Leonard Cohen Ganesha is discovered enjoying the daisies in the suddenly wild...
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kaydee777
- Sep 23
- 3 min
A complicated blue lotus heritage
The first test print of the brand new water lily block shows it still needs a bit of cleanup. The design is a tiny, somewhat obscure...
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kaydee777
- Sep 22
- 2 min
Saffron eyes gleaming
Began carving a new printing block today, thinking about the blue water lilies (Nymphaea nouchali var. caerulea) that grew on a dam...
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kaydee777
- Sep 13
- 2 min
And then it rained
Delivered mostly in the form of a rambunctious pre-dawn sound and light show of a gullywasher, we finally got rain. At 1.4 inches...
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kaydee777
- Sep 12
- 1 min
Luminosity
It doesn't bring much rain to the post summer garden, but an exquisite luminosity attends a sunset thunderstorm over Turtleback Mountain...
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kaydee777
- Sep 8
- 3 min
A promise of rainbows: the bluebird of happiness and some prickly babes
A Passerina caerulea (Blue grosbeak) visited the birdbath today. He (yes this handsome visitor is the male version) seemed to hang around...
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kaydee777
- Sep 4
- 3 min
Slow food Sunday
Sunday's early morning desert food foraging yielded samples of prickly pear tuna gleaned from neighbours who don’t want their cactus...
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kaydee777
- Aug 27
- 3 min
Sunday Svādhyāya
My mail order saffron crocus (Crocus sativus) bulbs have arrived. Now the challenge is to decide where to plant them. Though that's a...
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kaydee777
- Aug 24
- 3 min
Drinking in the desert: opuntia dreaming
Though it's hard to tell the exact moment, the beautiful ruby coloured tuna (prickly pear fruit) on the outback opuntia seemed ready to...
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kaydee777
- Aug 18
- 2 min
The little birds of fortuity
"Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call...
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kaydee777
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Witnessing transmutation
Today's witness of the transmutation of night into day at Caballo Lake is all about birds. I launch in a rosy numinosity of almost...
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kaydee777
- Aug 14
- 2 min
Jewels of the desert
More rose quartz than ruby, the season’s first pomegranate jewels, quintessential desert fruit, spill onto my plate today, sweet and...
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kaydee777
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Pear shaped and prickly
The desert offered up a prickly Valentine this morning. Tuna aren't quite ready for picking yet, but when they are I have plans for...
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kaydee777
- Aug 6
- 2 min
Bag lunch
The ripening figs are bagged against the birds. After noticing avian interest, I spent the early morning cool tying little drawstring...
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kaydee777
- Aug 4
- 3 min
In defiance of birds: kitchen alchemy
Today began with a jalapeño lentil loaf (soaked green lentils blended with coconut flour, garlic, jalapeños and some liquid) filling the...
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kaydee777
- Aug 2
- 3 min
At the shoreline of tea and dreams
Some days I drink my first cup of tea at the lake, with a vessel and a paddle. Everyone has a favourite time of day. Mine is the liminal...
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kaydee777
- Aug 1
- 5 min
Stitching story and storied stitches
Noticing that today July 30th, is world embroidery day I thought to share one of my works in progress here. With the prevailing 100...
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kaydee777
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Bearable Lightness
In memoriam Milan Kundera, brother in word and thought: "There is no perfection, only life" In these days of extreme heat, the best hours...
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kaydee777
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Cut from the cloth
I do not often get invited to exhibit artworks in this little town, since I'm not much out there strutting my stuf,f preferring the...
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kaydee777
- Jul 4
- 3 min
Nothing left to lose on the proud highway
"Freedom is something that dies unless it is used" Hunter S Thompson It's that time of year again here in the northern Chihuahuan desert:...
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